After the last M:I film I was, my hopes for me getting into this series seemed to be getting slimmer. Although I enjoyed the first M:I film is wasn't an amazing movie and its sequel seemed a bit more like a total reboot with the same title character. This all changed when I saw Mission: Impossible 3 (2006), although not the greatest film I've ever seen, it is probably (at this point) the best since the first film.
Based six years after the second film, Ethan seems to be semi- retired from the IMF and is about to get married to his fiancée Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Ethan is sent on a rescue mission, to save agent Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell) in order to find out more information on arms dealer Owen Davien (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). Hunt and his team reduce Farris but unfortunately she dies while they escape the warehouse meaning they failed the mission. However they learnt that Davien is trying to acquire something known as the Rabbits Foot which Hunt needs to prevent.
This time the films director this time round is J.J Abrams, who is known for directing Star Wars episodes 7 and 9, The Star Trek reboot, as well as producing popular TV series Lost. Abrams would have a producer credit in all other films in the series as his company 'Bad Robot' would have a hand in all future instalments after this. Abrams directs this movie almost like if the first movie was made in 2006 instead of 10 years before.
The performances in the film are great, with the usual's Cruise and Rhames being great at playing Hunt and Luther, the new team are likeable feel like fleshed out characters for amount of time we see them for. Keri Russell does a good performance for little material she is given, Phillip Hoffman does a good performance as Davien and make the character one of the better villains the series has so far.
The things I like about this movie is that Hunt has personal stakes again as Davien threatens to go after Julia. Davien seems to be one of the better villains so far as he smart and calculating and has a back up for everything making him a dangerous individual. Hunt seems to be more like his first film self as he's smart and improvised alot (although he did that in the other two films as well). The scenes between Hunt and Davien are well shot and feel very tense, and example of this can be found when Davien threatens to shoot Julia if Hunt gave up the location of the Rabbits Foot.
However there are some things I didn't like. Although I said I like the other two team members, I don't remember there names, this isn't just a problem with this film it seems to be with every film so far. However the later movies seem to fix this problem, also the twist in this movie comes too late in the film in my opinion and it makes it worst that was a bluff made by Musgrave (Billy Crudup) and as a result the third act seems a little rushed to the end.
Overall I would give Mission: Impossible 3 a 7/10: A good plot, with massive stakes for the lead character. However felt a little rushed near the end.
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